baroda views (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. 40 black and white plates in good condition. Photographs of architecture and vehicles in Baroda (Vadodara), including palaces and their grounds. Plates are darkened and torn around the edges. n.d. (1890?). Light brown patterned endpapers. Bound in brown cloth on bevel boards with gilt titles. A blind stamped seal on the lower board. Boards are scuffed and scratched. Worn around the edges. SCARCE. G+ Size: 10 1/2 x 8. Book.

Small oblong 4to. (ii), (20) pp. Publisher's full morocco, gilt lettered to the upper cover, patterned coated endpapers, presentation inscription to "A. Menton Esq." from the Maharaja of Baroda, signed "R.R. Shirparkar [?], Secretary, Paris 27-10-21". Photographic portrait of the Maharaja plus 39 photographic views. Slight wear to the foot of the spines, a few minor holes to lower cover, very good overall. Scarce. Evidently published in the early years of the 20th century, OCLC locates just one copy of this work at Indiana University. It is distinct from another, almost identically titled, album listed with similarly few copies which has mounted photographs, unlike here.